MASAK Launched New Suspicious Transaction Reporting Structure Implementation of Updated Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) Structure We are pleased to inform you that MASAK has announced a comprehensive update to the Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) structure, which took effect on May 8, 2024. These changes include significant enhancements in the following areas: - Suspicious [...]
Why Banks Need Real-Time Transaction Monitoring? The banking industry is changing from a physical to a digital one in today's information economy. Conversely, digital transition presents a unique set of difficulties. Banks are dealing with a fresh and intricate set of money laundering issues, and the number of regulatory infractions keeps going [...]
Top Banking Trends in 2024 About a quarter century ago, the banking industry leaped into the realm of digitalization and it has transformed the understanding, operations, and the whole system of banking since then. Similarly, the quickly evolving and maturating field of artificial intelligence (AI), along with the new cloud computing and data [...]
What are the Fraud Trends in 2024? The financial landscape has been continuously evolving at an accelerating pace together with the increased globalization, interconnectedness, technological enhancements and digital solutions. This rapidly-developing trend brought about a rise in the new methods to exploit the system which helped financial criminals to find new ways [...]
The Highest AML Fines of 2023 The ever-evolving nature of the financial world and regulations to keep up with the technological trends and new methods of financial crimes caused high levels of increase in the anti-money laundering (AML) related fines imposed on the financial institutions and other organizations from different industries. While [...]
What is G20’s 2027 Vision for Cross Border Payments? Cross-border payments play a vital role in the seamless operation of the international economy, and their significance continues to rise as the world's economies become increasingly interlinked through digital means. These payments have been growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5%, [...]
Fineksus Launches API Access for AML Name Screening Solution with the Inspector API Fineksus proudly announces the official launch of Inspector API. This dedicated platform for API users is ready to redefine the landscape of AML Name Screening technology, offering a cost-effective gateway to Fineksus' advanced solutions. This innovative solution sets itself [...]
What is Banking as a Service (BaaS) and Why is It Important The term of inclusivity has been an effective concept in the finance industry since the stakeholders aim to offer as many and various services to their customers in order to keep them in their portfolio and prevent them switching into [...]
How Has Compliance Landscape Shaped in 2023? 2023 has been a year of challenges for the financial regulatory compliance landscape in the shadows of inflation fluctuations in the world, longstanding influence of the global pandemic, important developments and tensions in geopolitics, continuously increasing cost-of-living and fast-changing technological enhancements. In order to adapt [...]
What are the Financial Crime Trends in 2023? The acceleration of technological advancements has boosted the digitalization process of the financial industry at an unexpected pace. This has resulted in two different outcomes for the financial world. The overall financial services industry evolved and quickly adapted itself into the needs of the [...]
